Your Health, Your Decisions: How to Work with Your Doctor to Become a Knowledge-Powered Patient

Author:   Robert Alan McNutt
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
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9781469683584


Pages:   164
Publication Date:   15 March 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Your Health, Your Decisions: How to Work with Your Doctor to Become a Knowledge-Powered Patient


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In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed, medical-expertise model of making decisions, presenting a practical approach augmented by formal exercises designed to give patients the tools and confidence to compare and contrast their health-care options so they can make their own choices. He addresses a number of scenarios, including heart disease, breast cancer, and prostate cancer—conditions that pose a range of choices that patients may face about diagnoses and treatments. After providing a clear explanation of what is the highest quality medical-decision-making information, McNutt teaches patients to use that information to weigh the harms and benefits of their treatment options, empowering them to ask critical questions as they take a stronger hand in their own care. Your Health, Your Decisions moves from specific scenarios that commonly baffle patients to a systematic exploration of how to make medical decisions. By offering patients the tools they need to be full partners in their own health care, McNutt demystifies what can be a bewildering and even terrifying process.

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Author:   Robert Alan McNutt
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:  

9781469683584


ISBN 10:   146968358
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   15 March 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

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"An extraordinarily powerful tool for patients, but it is equally powerful for medical educators to help their students keep the patient perspective in the forefront during their learning process. 5 Stars!"" - Doody's Book Reviews ""With McNutt's cooperative problem-solving insight, patients will feel like partners rather than pawns in the health-care system."" - Foreword Reviews ""Assist[s] patients with making informed, knowledgeable health care treatment choices. . . . A valuable supplemental text for advanced nursing students, physician assistant students, and medical students. Recommended."" - CHOICE"


An extraordinarily powerful tool for patients, but it is equally powerful for medical educators to help their students keep the patient perspective in the forefront during their learning process. 5 Stars!--Doody's Book Reviews Assist[s] patients with making informed, knowledgeable health care treatment choices. . . . A valuable supplemental text for advanced nursing students, physician assistant students, and medical students. Recommended.--CHOICE With McNutt's cooperative problem-solving insight, patients will feel like partners rather than pawns in the health-care system.--Foreword Reviews


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Robert McNutt, M.D., is a clinician, researcher, teacher, decision analyst, former medical editor, and, now, a decision-making consultant. He is the president and CEO of YouChooseMedical, LLC.

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